Mar
16
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Seminari e Convegni
Beyond the MAP #13 | Heritage in Between
As part of the “Beyond the Map” lecture series of the Master's Degree Programme in Architecture for Heritage, the seminar Heritage in Between. The unresolved destiny of the Friendship Park in New Belgrade, Serbia, with guest speaker Professor Ana Nikezić, will take place on 16 June 2026 at 5:00 p.m.
Abstract
The forcibly ruptured strands of cultural and historical continuity bear the unmistakable imprint on a dissonant stance toward the values of their era. This rupture compels urgent question: how is emergent heritage discerned and classified, by what mechanism is it recognized, and on what grounds are its authenticity and integrity adjudicated? The lecture exposes the inherent dissonances of emerging heritage - forms of patrimony that persist within contexts and functions for which they were neither assumed nor intended - thereby destabilizing conventional frameworks of value. The Friendship Park complex in Usce, New Belgrade, serves as a pragmatic case: an unresolved palimpsest in which the vanished cultures architectural agents and spatial arrangements linger as culpable witnesses, suspended in liminal identity that challenges normative taxonomies of preservation, legitimacy and cultural memory.
Biography
Professor Ana Nikezić is an architect, PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (2006), Full professor, and senior academic leader based in Belgrade, with over 20 years of teaching experience in architectural and urban design and 15+ years in scientific research. Her primary field is architectural and urban design, with a strong research focus on urban culture and emerging heritage, and academic focus on socially and ecologically responsible and interdisciplinary education. She has authored more than 30 scientific papers published in international monographs, journals, and conferences and is continually involved in research projects on the national and international level.
The seminar will be held in English.
For more information, please contact referente.MAP@polito.it.
Abstract
The forcibly ruptured strands of cultural and historical continuity bear the unmistakable imprint on a dissonant stance toward the values of their era. This rupture compels urgent question: how is emergent heritage discerned and classified, by what mechanism is it recognized, and on what grounds are its authenticity and integrity adjudicated? The lecture exposes the inherent dissonances of emerging heritage - forms of patrimony that persist within contexts and functions for which they were neither assumed nor intended - thereby destabilizing conventional frameworks of value. The Friendship Park complex in Usce, New Belgrade, serves as a pragmatic case: an unresolved palimpsest in which the vanished cultures architectural agents and spatial arrangements linger as culpable witnesses, suspended in liminal identity that challenges normative taxonomies of preservation, legitimacy and cultural memory.
Biography
Professor Ana Nikezić is an architect, PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (2006), Full professor, and senior academic leader based in Belgrade, with over 20 years of teaching experience in architectural and urban design and 15+ years in scientific research. Her primary field is architectural and urban design, with a strong research focus on urban culture and emerging heritage, and academic focus on socially and ecologically responsible and interdisciplinary education. She has authored more than 30 scientific papers published in international monographs, journals, and conferences and is continually involved in research projects on the national and international level.
The seminar will be held in English.
For more information, please contact referente.MAP@polito.it.